The Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand,commonly known as Green or the Greens,is a green and left-wing political party in New Zealand. Like many green parties around the world,it has four pillars. The party's ideology combines environmentalism with left-wing and social-democratic economic policies,including well-funded and locally controlled public services within the confines of a steady-state economy. Internationally,it is affiliated with the Global Greens.
Nándor Steven Tánczos is a New Zealand social ecologist,researcher,educator,activist and political commentator. He is currently a councillor in the Whakatāne District Council. He is also co-director of He Puna Manawa social and political change agency.
Metiria Leanne Agnes Stanton Turei is a New Zealand academic and former politician. She was a Member of Parliament from 2002 to 2017 and the female co-leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand from 2009 to 2017. Turei resigned from the co-leader position on 9 August 2017 amid a political controversy arising from her admission to lying to the Ministry of Social Development to receive higher payments when she was on the Domestic Purposes Benefit and later,to being enrolled to vote in an electorate where she was not eligible when she was 23.
Sue Bradford is a New Zealand activist,academic,and former New Zealand politician who served as a list Member of Parliament representing the Green Party from 1999 to 2009.
Russel William Norman is a New Zealand politician and environmentalist. He was a Member of Parliament and co-leader of the Green Party. Norman resigned as an MP in October 2015 to work as Executive Director of Greenpeace Aotearoa New Zealand.
Kevin Grant Hague is a New Zealand public servant,activist and a former politician.
Kennedy Gollan Montrose Graham is a New Zealand politician and former Member of Parliament for the Green Party. He has served in the New Zealand Foreign Service for sixteen years,and lectured at the University of Canterbury and Victoria University of Wellington.
David James Clendon is a New Zealand former politician. He was a list Member of Parliament in the New Zealand House of Representatives for the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand from 2009 until 2017. He later served one term on the Far North District Council from 2019 to 2022.
Denise Maree Roche is a New Zealand politician. She was a member of the Waiheke Local Board and the New Zealand House of Representatives,where she represented the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand from 2011 to 2017.
Steffan John Browning is a New Zealand politician of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand. He was elected as a member of the House of Representatives in 2011 and retired in 2017.
Holly Ruth Walker is a former member of the New Zealand House of Representatives from 2011 to 2014,as a Green Party list MP. She is deputy Director of The Helen Clark Foundation,and a writer and book reviewer.
Julie Anne Genter is an American-born New Zealand politician who is a member of the House of Representatives representing the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand. Genter was elected to each Parliament from 2011 to 2023 on the party lists,before being elected as the Member of Parliament for the Rongotai electorate in the 2023 election. She served as the Minister for Women,Associate Minister for Health and Associate Minister for Transport during the first term of the Sixth Labour Government. She holds dual citizenship of New Zealand and the United States.
James Peter Edward Shaw is a New Zealand politician. He has been a member of parliament since 2014 and a co-leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand from 2015 to 2024.
Seventy-one members of the New Zealand House of Representatives were elected from electorates in the general election on 23 September 2017.
The Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand male co-leadership election,2015 was held to determine the future leadership of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand. The election was won on the first ballot by first term List MP James Shaw.
The Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand female co-leadership election,2018 is an election that took place between 26 March and 7 April 2018 to determine the future leadership of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand.
The Young Greens of Aotearoa New Zealand is the youth wing of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand,and a member of the Global Young Greens. The Young Greens represent Green Party members 35 years of age and under. The Young Greens were founded by MP and then Young Green Gareth Hughes in 2006.
Vernon Ivan Tava is a barrister living in Auckland,New Zealand. He is the founder and leader of the Sustainable New Zealand Party and a former candidate for the Green Party of Aotearoa,New Zealand.
Ricardo Menéndez March is a New Zealand activist and politician who,since 2020,is a Member of Parliament for the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand in the House of Representatives.
The 2024 Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand co-leadership election was held following the resignation of James Shaw and was won by Chlöe Swarbrick.
